By Alberto Mingardi
My friend Daniel Johnson has an article on the European project at our sister site, Law and Liberty. Johnson seems convinced that the pandemic has endangered the European project and, indirectly, proved the feasibility of Brexit. There is much I agree with in Daniel's article; here I will concentrate on what I don't agree with. It is a very English article, so to say. I think he could be right, but for the wrong reasons. Johnson writes: The European Commission,...
In this blog, I've done many posts criticizing the way our regulators inhibited an effective response to Covid-19. They discouraged mask wearing, they discouraged Covid testing, they put up all sorts of regulatory and legal hurdles that dramatically slowed vaccine development, authorization, etc. Today, our...
To the extent that the pandemic shifted power to the nation state away from supranational organizations is probably because the scope of the externalities were "nation state size." The harm to others of one more Italian becoming infected was mainly felt by other Italians, not Germans or Swedes and vice versa. In the US the shift was modestly toward States and away from the Federal Government.
Thomas Lee Hutcheson , July 22, 6:48 am.